Read more meteorites stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/15828/meteorites.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 13:51:34 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72707/mobile-firms-meteor-stunt-backfires.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA Swedish mobile phone company has dug itself into a crater with a marketing stunt involving a fake meteorite. Tele2 dug a hole in a meadow in Latvia and placed burning chemicals in the bottom to simulate a meteor strike, making headlines worldwide and fooling emergency services into cordoning off...http://www.newser.com/story/72707/mobile-firms-meteor-stunt-backfires.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 28 Oct 2009 4:42:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/61776/schoolboy-survives-meteor-strike.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA 14-year-old German schoolboy survived with just a scar on his hand after being hit by a meteorite traveling 30,000 miles an hour, the Daily Telegraph reports. The red-hot pebble buried itself in the road after bouncing off Gerrit Blank, who doused it with a drink, dug it out...http://www.newser.com/story/61776/schoolboy-survives-meteor-strike.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 13 Jun 2009 3:11:52 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/54373/scientists-track-meteor-to-earth-for-first-time.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagScientists have accomplished a first by tracking an asteroid from space into Earth's atmosphere and down to a Sudanese desert, Wired reports. A team of searchers found about 280 small chunks of the meteor, all of a type never before collected. "This is like the first step toward a Rosetta...http://www.newser.com/story/54373/scientists-track-meteor-to-earth-for-first-time.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 25 Mar 2009 17:56:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/45557/did-volcanoes-drive-dinos-to-extinction.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagColossal, repeated volcanic eruptions in India 65 million years ago released sulfuric gases that sent the dinosaurs, well, the way of the dinosaurs, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. A group of scientists at a Bay Area conference this week is questioning the decades-held theory that a meteor killed off dinosaurs....http://www.newser.com/story/45557/did-volcanoes-drive-dinos-to-extinction.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 17 Dec 2008 14:51:27 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/27779/asteroids-could-reseed-a-devastated-earth.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIf a comet ever obliterates life on Earth, don't worry—space rocks could later fall in and reseed a few basic life forms. A new study shows that organisms can survive being hit by a meteor, ejected into space, and hurtled back to Earth on the face of a rock—...http://www.newser.com/story/27779/asteroids-could-reseed-a-devastated-earth.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 18 May 2008 15:13:03 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/10403/meteorite-hunter-gets-his-due.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHe’s not exactly Indiana Jones, but Steve Arnold does have fame, wild adventures, and an 18-foot-wide metal detector. Arnold, a meteorite hunter, has combed the deserts of Chile, the tundras of Siberia, and the streets of Chicago looking for the extraterrestrial lumps of metal, the LA Times reports. His hard...http://www.newser.com/story/10403/meteorite-hunter-gets-his-due.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 27 Oct 2007 13:17:44 CDT